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Learning throws a charm over everything. We should store our minds with useful knowledge for it will thus be enabled to do much good. When we have received a good education we know that happiness is at our command. The importance of paying strict attention to our studies while attending school cannot be too deeply impressed upon our minds. If it were not for education our days would be spent in sin and idleness, There are none who do not understand the importance of a good education. We can go to many places where education has been neglected and if we should we would find the people there very unhappy. We ought to be thankful that we have had a chance and have such kind teachers to assist us in our various studies. M.L.A. Mary Abby, Sacramento City, Dec date? Dear Ida, I have just arrived in California, the great gold region. I would have written to you before but I have been waiting to find something that would be interesting to you. I started from New Orleans on the Balpool and sailed in a south easterly direction to Isthmus of Darien, It is a beautiful place, it is 15 miles wide. We travelled on foot across it, saw nothing of any importance to relate, then we got on the Aleada bound for Cal, The wind being favorable we soon arrived at the great city of Sacramento, We put up at the Cal. hotel and had to pay $12 per. week for board we only staid one week for if we had staid any longer we would have been broken up. The second day after our arrival there we walked around and viewed the greatest city in P.A. The third day we thought we would erect us a cabin in the woods, we purchased for ourselves a piece of land and built us a little cabin, it took us all that week to get